Notice board

Focus on the facts

Nicola Davies

How to be a STARR performer

Elspeth Raisbeck

Support on schedule

Tessa Watts

Student life-Support on schedule

Tessa Watts

Managing COPD

Claire Webster

Treatment and care of patients with metastatic breast cancer

Tara Beaumont, Maria Leadbeater

Exploring the learning experiences of nursing students with dyslexia

Jenny Child, Elizabeth Langford

Abortion services: the need to include men in care provision

Vicky Papworth

Lack of support from a mentor while on a placement is something that, unfortunately, many of us will recognise (reflections May 25)

Karen Elcock

Debate on assisted suicide needs up-to-date information

Gay Lee

Students can learn much by working in outpatients

Anne Zeraschi

High-quality mentorship will help us build a strong future workforce

Karen Elcock

Always the Children – A Nurse’s Story of Home and War

Laurence Dopson

Privacy Law Handbook

Marc Cornock

Care of the Acutely Ill Adult – An Essential Guide for Nurses

Beverly McClean

In advance

David Newnham has registered as an organ donor – three times

Sickle cell disease has some little-known complications

On the right path

Lynne Wallis

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

Dying people should be allowed to choose how they die

Joyce Robins

Readers panel-The cost of non-compliance

Linda Drake, Jane Brown, Paul Jebb, Stephanie Cumming

Starting out - Useful lesson in responding to needs of patient with dementia

Stephanie Mackay

Useful lesson in responding to needs of patient with dementia

Stephanie Mackay

All for nothing?

Voices - Sickle cell disease has some little-known complications, says Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

Casualties of summer

Sue Learner

Nurse holding court

Jenny Knight

Outside in

David Newnham

Scarborough seafront initiative showed a proactive approach

Nikki Milner

When the heat is on

Catharine Sadler

Moderate exercise has no effect on women’s sex hormone levels

Preloading with varenicline helps in smoking cessation

Brain tumour risk persists for many years after epilepsy

Adherence to UK guidance on diet reduces chronic disease

Thank you for listening, now it is time for action

Howard Catton

Computerised patient files have added to paperwork

Jenny McIntyre

Book helps to demystify the subject of leadership

Sara Garland

Sickness leave linked to shrinking nurse numbers

David Harding-Price

Parents’ use of alternative therapies can be detrimental

Liz Gormley-Fleming

Improved dementia outcomes stem from educated care

Sue Hill

Placement facilitators needed to monitor mentors

Julie Hawkins

Unions fight attempt to link pay and sickness

Leading children’s nurse hails role for PCTs in secure settings

Nightingale bear helps girl orphans

Trust boasts double employee awards scoop

Colleges call for close teamwork on pledges to dying patients

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Rehabilitation unit offers choice of art

Regulator to study how qualified staff should delegate their tasks

Tamsin Snow

GPs press on with consortia despite parliamentary ‘pause’

News in brief

NMC to resume evaluations of nursing courses

Dialysis project wins innovation accolade

Southern Cross staff quit as firm is hit by rent rises

Dual registration in Wales questioned

Panorama exposé refuels debate over regulation of support staff

Sarah Harrison, Sally Gillen

Pay protection change overruled by tribunal

Healthcare staff asked to work unpaid shifts in bid to save cash

Petra Kendall-Raynor

A caring society?

Graham Scott